...Fred Astaire is one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century, he is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Fred Astaire introduced “Night and Day” on stage, and his recording of the song was a #1 hit. He performed it again in the 1934 film version of the show, renamed The Gay Divorcee, and became his signature pieces. The construction of “Night and Day” is unusual for a hit song of 1930s. Most popular tunes then featured 32-bar choruses, divided into 8-bar section, unusually with an A AABA musical structure, the B section representing the bridge. The vocal verse is also unusual in that most of the melody consists of single note with inconclusive and unusual harmonies underneath. Repeated notes in the verse is an indication of Astaire’s obsessions Night and Day; You are the one; Only you, beneath the moon, and under the sun The melody is just the same, one note either played or held for two and one-half measures. All the repeated notes flatten the melody, which transfers the emphasis to the harmonies and Latin beat. Instrumentation: piano, bass, drums and guitar Performance style: Rhythm: The tune begins with a pedal (repeated) dominant with major seventh chord on flattened sixth of the key, which then resolves into dominant seventh in the next bar. Harmony: Jazz is genre of music with an emphasis on improvisation, and swung syncopated rhythms. It often utilizes elements of the blues, and often uses standard show tunes ...
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...quaint shop, it is designed in local artist motif, everything on the walls is listed for sale. The seating arrangement is that of a small concert hall in the evenings, this is to accommodate the array of musicians that grace the café. If you find yourself in attendance of these amazing concerts be prepared to have a one of a kind up close and personal experience. The Robin Henkel band was the musical selection of the evening. This Jazz Quintet had a very family like demeanor and were very outgoing. They started the night off with a few jokes while warming up in what I could consider to be very dissipated harmony. Each musician was practicing parts with the others but no one was in sync. The first song they played was collaboration of all the instruments coming together in consonance harmony to gain the audience attention. It was announced that the first song to be played was an original composition by Robin Henkel, “Free Advice” is what he called it. The tune was played with a tonal center of B flat and started with a trumpet solo and soprano sax accompaniment. This song carried the tempo for the night with a smooth steady tone. The next song was entitled “Jeeps Blues”, it used the keynote of “C” and kept 4/4 time. This song had a very syncopated rhythm that had people out of their seats and dancing, myself included. All the elements we have been learning about were present in this tune. It started off in a mezzo Piano tone and during solos it reached a fortissimo tone. This...
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...The Death of Sue Blue Sue Blue was a 29 year old woman who was found dead in her home nights ago at 9:32 PM after neighbors phoned police over noise disturbance. Sue worked as a firefighter and was found in uniform in a mangled shape next to a pool of blood. Discovered in her home was a white powdery substance on the table that was tested positive for cocaine along with many other incriminating items. A note was found in the trash stating “Meet at Buck’s place” found on the note were fingerprints tracing back to Sue's boyfriend Keith Silver. Keith had recently gotten out of drug rehab after possessing and using class A drugs such as cocaine and meth. When question he said he was making lunch at home when she was found dead. The next suspect...
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...Blues: A Contemporary Sound “It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues. . . . It’s called rock now.” A club filled with smoke on the Southern Side of the city of Chicago, the Macomba Lounge, on a Saturday night in the year 1950. On a dimly lit small stage behind the bar in the narrow long club, mounted a strong African American robed in baggy pants, an electric green suit and a white shirt with a striped tie. A 3-inch pompadour was sported by him with his slicked back hair. He grasped an oversize electric guitar which is an instrument founded in the urban environment of postwar, pulling, caressing, bending and pushing the strings until he produced a distressed sharp cry that crossed...
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...Blues vs Country music According to Etta James in an interview with American Chronicle: "The Blues and country are first cousins ... What I look for in a song is for the story to be for real. I like a blood and guts kind of thing. That's what you find in the lyrics of country music." Blues and country music both developed in the 19th century in the Southern United States. They share a similar history. For this reason, they share many of the same musical and lyrical characteristics. Read more: How to Compare Blues & Country Music | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5888119_compare-blues-country-music.htInstructions 1. * 1 Learn the history behind blues and country music. They are both forms of American folk music influenced by earlier styles brought overseas. Blues music grew out of field hollers and chants sung by African slaves. Irish and Scottish balladeers borrowed the guitar and banjo of blues and thus created "country". According to Reebee Garofalo in "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA", "Terms like country and blues are only used to separate the same kind of music made by blacks and whites ... designations like race and hillbilly intentionally separated artists along racial lines and conveyed the impression that their music came from mutually exclusive sources." Country is an offshoot of blues. They are essentially the same thing. In the PBS special, "Rhythm, Country and Blues," country is referred to as "white man's blues." * 2 Listen to...
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...Hear When I Listen to Billie Holiday’s “Billie’s Blues” Tyler Brady Intro to Music: Term Paper Dr. Burns In the 19th century, a very prominent genre and musical form emerged from the Deep South of America; often defined as a repetitive and poetic music structure derived from jazz, blues music became an influential role in the astounding American identity. On the basis of originality and artistry, Billie Holiday is noted as one of the most influential jazz and blues singers. Throughout a dark life of poverty, drugs and adversity that arose from sexism and racism, Billie Holiday turned to her passion of music and singing. One of “Lady Day’s” most well-known pieces was recorded in 1936 and was titled “Billie’s Blues” This piece is structured as a 12-bar blues piece with a short introduction and six choruses. Throughout this blues song, there is a repetitive and invigorating harmonic pattern present. “Billie’s Blue’s” reflects a very laid back style through Holiday’s signature “lazy” style using many jazz embellishments such as blue notes; moreover, these melodies sung by Billie Holiday, as well as the two improvised solos performed by Bunny Berigan and Arty Shaw, are extremely artistic and original. In despite of a poverty stricken life filled with drug abuse and adversity, Billie Holiday was able to establish herself as a prominent blues and jazz singer; she was able to display this in “Billie’s Blues,” a 12-bar blues piece, with exceptional use of harmony and melody...
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. DISPOSAL OF THIS SCRIPT COPY DOES NOT ALTER ANY OF THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn Based on the Novel By Gillian Flynn Yellow Revised Pink Revised Blue Script White Script — - 9/27/13 9/15/13 8/29/13 7/30/13 Al BLACK SCREEN NICK (V.0.) When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. FADE IN: INT. BEDROOM SOMETIME Al - We see the back of AMY DUNNE’S HEAD, resting on a pillow. NICK (V.0.) I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, Nick runs his fingers into Amy’s hair. NICK (V.0.) Trying to get answers. He twirls and twirls a lock, a screw tightening. NICK (V.0.) The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? AMY wakes, turns, gives a look of alarm. * BLACK SCREEN 2 EXT. NORTH CARTHAGE MORNING 2 - A carved faux-marble entry—reading FOREST GLEN—ushers us into a ruined HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. Mostly VACANT houses. A few Fourth of July decorations hang in windows. A weird, BUCOLIC air: swaying grasses, stray wildlife. 3 EXT. NICK DUNNE’S FRONT YARD TITLE CARD: JULY 5th, 2012 THE MORNING OF NICK DUNNE, 30s, handsome, is taking out the trash; his yard is the only one mowed—all around him WILDERNESS encroaches. The SUN rises over the...
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...SummerStage, the largest free performing arts festival in New York City, in association with the Blue Note Jazz Festival, had one of its apogees on Saturday, June 4, with a concert to honor the fabulous 77-year-old pianist, McCoy Tyner. The event, entitled 'The Legends Honor McCoy' took place at the Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield, and attracted avid enthusiasts of all ages, who gathered to see some of the living jazz legends in action. The preeminent Ron Carter, the ambassador of the jazz bassists, played with his quartet: Renee Rosnes on piano, Payton Crossley on drums, and Rolando Morales-Matos on percussion. They opened with a long medley that combined bossanova/samba flavors, empathic bop, and glowing modal music. I was able to identify a few tunes such as Miles Davis’ “Flamenco Sketches” and “7 Steps to Heaven”, and Luiz Bonfa’s “Samba de Orfeu”, in which Carter delighted us with his innate slides and grooves during an expressive bass solo....
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...William followed Mary up the porch steps. They stood next to the dinner bell hanging from the eaves. William lifted the wand and began ringing the iron triangle. A sustained clang, clang, clang rang out over the estate, calling the community to dinner. “How was the knitting circle?” William asked. “It went well. We spun the last bushel of cotton and made onesies and blankets for the newborns at Heritage Woods,” Mary said. “That sounds like an appropriate thing to do following your community notes and Reverend Flowers’ sermon.” “I thought so, too,” Mary said. “The older women and I had a nice talk with some of the younger women. One young woman admitted to using birth control. She told us that her husband was pulling out, but I suspect something a bit more. She didn’t come right out and admit to using condoms, but it was on the tip her tongue.” “Can you blame her? Would you have admitted to using condoms after Reverend Flowers’ sermon and your community notes? She was probably scared to death.” “I suppose you’re right; we got the message...
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...[pic] VISUAL LEARNERS 65% of learners belong to this group. Visual learners prefer written information, diagrams and pictures. They prefer to take down notes during a presentation, They will even make their own notes even when they are given printed hand-outs. They are better at written communication. These learners have the ability to think in pictures as well as see and create images complete with shapes colours and size. They tend to remember faces but not names. A LOOK AT VISUAL LEARNER A typical visual learner uses visualization techniques to remember things. They often have a good sense of direction because they visualize maps and directions in their mind. Many prefer to read information in a textbook or on the whiteboard rather than listen to the teacher lecture. They also enjoy doodling and drawing. Visual learners typically use sight words in their everyday terminology. For example, they might say "Let's take a look at this." or "Let's look at this from a different perspective." They remember details including colours and spatial arrangements. VISUAL LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS Visual learners are those who learn through seeing things. Look over the characteristics below to see if they sound familiar. A visual learner: • Is good at spelling but forgets names. • Needs quiet study time. • Has to think awhile before understanding lecture. • Is good at spelling. • Likes colours & fashion. • Dreams in colour. • Understands/likes charts. • Is good with...
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...Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington is one of the most accomplished Jazz musicians of all time. He was born in Washington D.C. in 1899. Duke Ellington’s father worked as a butler at the White House, and both his father and mother were amateur pianist. As a young child Ellington preferred sports to music—which quickly changed. Ellington dropped out of high school in 1917 to pursue his music career, and by the mid-twenties had relocated to New York. Ellington’s spotlight to fame came from Harlem’s Cotton Club. Duke Ellington performed at the Cotton Club for a continuous six years, which during that time was a place where many distinguished musicians were born. Ellington is largely responsible for the birth of the “Big Band” era of Jazz. However, Ellington frequently referred to his music as “American Music”. He is credited with the composition of over 3,000 songs....
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...Night time in space It is very easy to get busy up here and forget to “stop and smell the roses” as it were. (I think that is probably true for all of us everywhere!) So after dinner and before bedtime tonight I finally stopped and took a moment to watch the world go by during a night pass. It seems like it has been a while since I have done this. There are always excuses…other things that have to get done, e-mails to write, feet to warm up, too tired, there is always another day...blah, blah, blah. But I put my foot down, figuratively speaking, and took the time. We were passing up through the Atlantic going north across Africa and Europe and arcing down through Asia to come out east of Australia and New Zealand into the Pacific. I do not know exactly where we were but it was already night when I positioned myself at the docking compartment window. I think it was the one facing more starboard. I always get myself mixed up when I go into that module; I can never easily find the hatch again. It is completely night. There are thunderstorms across Africa and lightning is everywhere; bright flashes are going cloud to cloud illuminating the clouds as it arcs from one to the other. It is a private fireworks show. The storm is large and very spread out and at any moment you see 4 or 5 flashes occurring at one time, each one only lasting a moment. The colors range from something orange-ish to blue-white. Some are more like balls of light while others have that characteristic...
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...bedroom apartment suddenly flooded his thoughts. He remembered her curly blond hair, and pale blue eyes. He remembered the way they buldged out when he choked her with the white extention cord she used to charge her cell phone at the kitchen table. He remembered the make up that ran down her burning eyes. “Mr? Where were you around one a.m. on Friday...
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...head. The paper was not important it just had lines and lines of notes that were just taken, by yours truly. My mind is more focus on the fact that everything in this school is the same and has been for the last four years. Yes, there has been little changes here and there, such as the lockers being painted and some of the pipes being fix. I’m not on to hate on life changing or hate on life staying the same, both had a lot of positives and both had some negatives. But, the same kids...
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...supplemental material and rights and permission policies, is available at http://ite.pubs.informs.org. Vol. 9, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 169–179 issn 1532-0545 09 0903 0169 informs ® doi 10.1287/ited.1090.0031tn © 2009 INFORMS I N F O R M S Transactions on Education Teaching Note Revenue Management at Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Narendra Agrawal Department of Operations and Management Information Systems, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, nagrawal@scu.edu Morris A. Cohen, Noah Gans Operations and Information Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 {cohen@wharton.upenn.edu, gans@wharton.upenn.edu} D istribution: To maintain the integrity and usefulness of cases published in ITE, distribution of this teaching note to any other party is prohibited. Please refer interested instructors to ITE for access to the teaching note. Section 1, below, contains the suggested case questions. Section 2 provides some background on the case questions, as well as sample answers. Section 3 systematically walks through HarrahsInstructionSpreadsheet.xls, which is one of the two supporting files1 included in this Teaching Note (TN): HarrahsCaseData.xls—supporting data for the case analysis, which can be distributed to students. HarrahsInstructorSpreadsheet.xls—spreadsheet that includes case data, a bid-price linear program (LP), and a Crystal Ball Simulation that allows the user to simulate...
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